I thought that I would list my thoughts about the new Harry Potter book called The Half Blood Prince. Matthew and I met Joy at her apartment on Friday night to decide on when we wanted to head over to Barnes & Noble to brave the small children and the general chaos. We finally headed over around 11:00 and the place was completely packed! What was really weird about this was that most of the people there were not children but adults who were in their 30′s and 40′s, I expected more kids to be there since the news raves about how this book series has encouraged younger and younger children to read. Another weird thing for me was that a large majority of people were dressed up in costumes and were sectioning off certain sections of the store for “their house” and the frustrating part was that while everyone was waiting until midnight they were drinking coffee and trying to browse around the store for interesting things to read. This was already difficult due to the large number of people that were present at the even but it became almost impossible once certain sections of the store were off limits to non house members. I was completely disgusted that all of these adults were acting like 10 year olds.
At any rate once midnight hit and everyone got in line to receive their copy or copies of the book things went very smoothly. Joy purchased her copy and Matthew bought a CD of the radio broadcast of War of The Worlds that was broadcast in the 1930′s by Orson Wells and The Mercury theater. I bought the hardback copy of the Complete Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy which is all 5 stories plus a bonus story by Douglas Adams for only $20 and an SQL< reference guide for work and my other projects.
After that we headed over to borders so Matthew could pick up his copy of Harry Potter on CD. We then took Joy back home and then went home ourselves to start listening to the book. 
We finally stopped listening at around 3:30 and passed out. I finished the book yesterday and I really enjoyed the story but I will not discuss it until later to give everyone time to read. If you haven’t read any of the books go out to your local library and check them out! At any rate, back to work I go. 
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